Business Sector: Leadership Development

Lean Manager Certification - Fall 2022 - Columbus, OH
Week 1: Sept 12-16 / Week 2: Oct 10-14 / Week 3: Nov 7-11 / Week 4: Dec 5-8
The Lean Manager Certification program develops the knowledge, capabilities, and confidence to improve your organization through the application of Lean techniques. This fully-accredited certification is jointly offered by Productivity Inc. and The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business...
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Lean Management Certification for Administration and Service Industries - Columbus, OH
Week 1: September 12-16 / Week 2: October 17-21 / Week 3: November 7-11
This program develops resources capable of leading/managing a Lean transformation in your service or administrative environment and is designed for senior and middle managers looking to drive waste from their processes to boost enterprise-wide performance and improve customer service. This is a fully-accredited certification designed specifically for administrative and service industry professionals.
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Total Productive Maintenance Manager Certification - Fall 2022 - Columbus, OH
Week 1: Sept. 19-23 / Week 2: Oct. 17-21 / Week 3: Nov. 14-18 / Week 4: Dec. 12-15
Created to develop resources capable of leading/managing a dynamic maintenance management and equipment improvement process using Total Productive Maintenance. Fully accredited certification for TPM managers and reliability leaders since 2010.
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Leading Lean
The Four Cornerstones of Transformation - Oct 13th, 27th, Nov 3rd, 17th
A Consultant-Led Virtual Leadership Curriculum
Using lessons learned from 4 decades of transformational experiences, we will explore the 4 dimensions to becoming a lean company, not just a company that does Lean things.

Hoshin Kanri: Deploying Priorities, From Vision to Daily Work
A live 6-hour virtual seminar – October 27th
Regrouping and refocusing your organization now, to concentrate on the vital few -- those things that will make a real difference to your organization’s performance -- seems a prudent thing to do. But how do you take all of the things there are to do, distill them down to the critical few and then defuse them throughout the entire organization? Through Hoshin Kanri.
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The Daily Management System
A live 6-hour virtual seminar – November 3rd
Ensuring sustainment through organization-wide operational governance.
A daily management system is a set of standard practices that keep improvement efforts on track and moving forward. DMS is the missing link in many operational excellence initiatives and the key to long-term sustainment by providing a structured way for leaders-at-all-levels to engage and provide direct, in-the-workplace, management and teaching routines.

Develop the A3 Problem-Solving Mindset
A live 6-hour virtual seminar – November 17th
Developing a culture of A3 Thinking problem-solvers.
In this interactive session, through presentation, examples, and reflections, participants will learn the importance of A3 thinking and understand how teams should act, behave and integrate problem-solving in their daily activities to generate discipline and focus on actual problems.

Lean Manager Certification - Spring 2023 - Columbus, OH
Week 1: March 6-10 / Week 2: April 10-14 / Week 3: May 8-12 / Week 4: June 5-8
The Lean Manager Certification program develops the knowledge, capabilities, and confidence to improve your organization through the application of Lean techniques. This fully-accredited certification is jointly offered by Productivity Inc. and The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, educating Lean managers and Lean leaders since 2001.
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